Synaptic evoked potentials from regenerating dorsal root axons within fetal spinal cord tissue transplants

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 278-290

  Houle, John D ^a   Skinner, Robert D ^a   Garcia Rill, Edgar ^a   Turner, Kathryn L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

EID: 0030158264     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0101     Document Type: Article

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